Fanbois should be ashamed.
Apple, a proud American Company.
Posted on 12/10/2020 12:07:09 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
There have been two latest reports that paint Apple in a damning light when it arrives to caring about the well being and perfectly-remaining of the personnel that create its goods. One fears the extended-term employing practices of Apple’s manufacturing facility associates (partly driven by Apple’s have needs), whilst the other touches on China’s abuse of the million or so Uyghurs at present held in internment camps.
First, a new report dependent on interviews with four Apple workforce paperwork how the enterprise was alarmed by a 2014 Chinese monthly bill strengthening employee protections, and demanding that no much more than 10 percent of a factory’s labor drive consist of momentary workers. Apple surveyed 362 supplier factories and identified just about half had been above this quota, though 80 of them applied temp employees for extra than 50 percent their labor drive.
Apple (and Chinese regulation) both equally asked for that its suppliers deal with this condition by 2016. When the quantities experienced scarcely transformed by 2016, Apple stopped earning sounds about it “out of problems it would generate prices, drain resources and hold off merchandise launches.”
But the difficulty goes further than that. According to The Details:
The previous staff members, as very well as a overview of inside Apple displays and the company’s possess facts on factory choosing concerning 2013 and 2018, indicates that Apple’s strategy for controlling its provide chain produced it difficult for its a few most important contract producers — Foxconn Technologies, Quanta Personal computer and Pegatron — to stay compliant with the labor limits. The situation surfaced once again publicly last yr when Apple admitted that Foxconn experienced broken the regulation at its huge Apple iphone manufacturing facility in Zhengzhou, which can utilize as many as 300,000 employees. Apple says it requires suppliers to abide by neighborhood legislation and pledges to remove those that won’t comply.
The Craven Cowardice of Apple’s ‘Courage’ As for the next report, recall that in accordance to Apple Fellow Phil Schiller, exhibiting braveness suggests getting action that may not be popular — like, say, taking away a headphone jack. We have mocked Apple for several years about the clueless, tone-deaf on-phase instant, but now that this new data has surfaced, I’m wanting to know if we obtained the whole tale incorrect. Maybe the motive Schiller connected “courage” with “stripping options off a product” is mainly because which is the ideal case in point Apple’s policies left him in a position to give without having instantly dying onstage from an acute case of hypocrisy.
Braveness isn’t having a attribute off a cellphone. Courage is telling your buyers to get bent due to the fact you are not fascinated in funding human legal rights abuses masquerading as unemployment.
But that would be far too substantially for Apple — a business so concerned with preserving its labor expenditures down that it has lobbied in opposition to the Uyghur Pressured Labor Avoidance Act, a invoice that calls for providers to assurance they never function with overseas businesses that employ slave labor. Apple promises that it is versus slave labor and that it will lower ties with any provider that engages in this sort of methods. Apple has also previously stated it upheld all Chinese labor rules, and that it lower ties with suppliers who failed to abide by these tactics, however the organization stays tethered to Foxconn at the hip.
The hubris — and cynicism — of this conduct would be staggering if 2020 hadn’t served up this sort of bumper crops of the two. Around the earlier 4 years, Apple has significantly jacked up the price tag of repairs for lots of equipment. It introduced products that expense significantly additional to deal with off-warranty and lied about how easy it was to bend the Apple iphone six and six Additionally. It raised the cost of AppleCare, raised the cost of non-warrantied repairs to the stratosphere in some circumstances, and confirmed zero interest in creating its products for effortless repair service.
The substantially-hated MacBook butterfly keyboard needs a $600 replacement portion due to the fact even Apple’s have experts just cannot just substitute a person vital — or even just the keyboard. The corporation ultimately established a free mend software, but only soon after months of large-profile problems and issues. Any problem Apple had about “creating costs” plainly did not prevent the corporation from gleefully producing a ton of expenditures for other persons. It is, seemingly, inconceivable to Apple’s corporate leadership that Tim Cook dinner ought to make an announcement like this:
“At Apple, we care plenty of about human rights to make particular our merchandise aren’t basically remaining created by slaves. In truth, we want to make specific that our partners’ workforces are perfectly-paid and joyful. Immediately after an audit revealed that lots of of our associates were in violation of Chinese labor laws, and had been for many years, we fired them. Companions who were being not able to warranty they wouldn’t use Uyghur slave labor in the design of our merchandise have in the same way been changed. As a end result, the upcoming Iphone will be delayed by six-9 months although we create a new offer chain with businesses prepared to assistance us uphold larger benchmarks in China, the United States, or anywhere throughout the earth.”
That would be courage.
This is not.
Fanbois should be ashamed.
Apple, a proud American Company.
According to the Democrats, slavery is OK if it benefits you.
LaBaby and Kraperdick approve.
that’s a feature!
I’m so relieved. I never thought about it that way.
I’m going to have to add a sound proof addition to the old house.
Does a bear shit in the woods?
Apple had to please it’s Communist Chinese masters.
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Apple had to please it’s Communist Chinese masters.
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Just like every other company making stuff in China. Many of those have far worse working conditions that the Foxconn Apple plants
I believe the timing is now because they are beginning to scale back production and tooling up for next years model.
The Chinese are on everyone’s shit list and Apple is no different from any of those other exploiting companies. You can’t get that rich without slave labor, Period.
You don’t have a clue what the Chinese are all about.
It should really bother you that it’s Chinese Labor laws being broken. It really takes some doing to break any Chinese labor laws.
The truth is that Apple is only peripherally connected as are the over 85 other companies named in the ASPI report, companies that are essentially at the mercy of Chinese Communist Party policy they have little to no say over.
Among those companies, and thousands more unnamed, are “Abercrombie & Fitch, Acer, Adidas, Alstom, Amazon, Apple, ASUS, BAIC Motor, BMW, Bombardier, Bosch, BYD, Calvin Klein, Candy, Carter’s, Cerruti 1881, Changan Automobile, Cisco, CRRC, Dell, Electrolux, Fila, Founder Group, GAC Group (automobiles), Gap, Geely Auto, General Electric, General Motors, Google, H&M, Haier, Hart Schaffner Marx, Hisense, Hitachi, HP, HTC, Huawei, iFlyTek, Jack & Jones, Jaguar, Japan Display Inc., L.L.Bean, Lacoste, Land Rover, Lenovo, LG, Li-Ning, Mayor, Meizu, Mercedes-Benz, MG, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Mitsumi, Nike, Nintendo, Nokia, The North Face, Oculus, Oppo, Panasonic, Polo Ralph Lauren, Puma, Roewe, SAIC Motor, Samsung, SGMW, Sharp, Siemens, Skechers, Sony, TDK, Tommy Hilfiger, Toshiba, Tsinghua Tongfang, Uniqlo, Victoria’s Secret, Vivo, Volkswagen, Xiaomi, Zara, Zegna, ZTE. Some brands are linked with multiple factories.”
Apple is the only one who actually writes restrictions against involuntary labor, underage workers, overtime limitations, and requires better working conditions, safety, and environmental safeguards into their contracts, and then adds teeth to those clauses, actually requiring financial penalties up to pulling multi-billion dollar contracts for violating them... and then places its own Apple paid staff at every work site to assure the conditions are being adhered to. None of those other customers do so, instead joining New York City based non-profits such as China Labor Watch to give lip service for their “concern.”
The American slavery of the south is minuscule compared to the SLAVERY of multi billions across the globe today to slave away making big tech sh*t,fill gluttony of cheap crap and the desire of sex slaves.
Apple says we pay a bit more for the slaves and provide safety nets when they jump off the roof.
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There are plenty of bad guys in the list you submitted. Not really good company when you think about it.
Real innovation is dead as these corporations just cash the checks.
Apple is hands down a top 5 world leader.
Apple seems to like to set examples and preach at others while acquiescing their Chinese Masters with a wink and a nod.
Simply put they could move out of China. That would do some real good, but with ALGORE on the Board sends all the wrong signals, like Susan Rice on Netflix.
I guess as long as they please the EU with a CMRT, REACH, RoHS, ETC documents they be good .
Sigh. The so-called suicide spate at Foxconn in 2010-2011 was a 0.75 person per 100,000 per year suicide rate. Compare that to the 11 person per 100,000 per year suicide rate among the same age/sex cohort of persons at USA Ivy League Colleges. The suicides at FoxConn occurred at plants assembling Sony Playstations, Nokia phones, and Microsoft XBox Systems. Not a single suicide during that period was associated with an Apple assembly line worker anywhere. The plant where the nets were erected by FoxConn CEO Terry Gou was 250 miles away from the nearest Apple assembly line.
These are FACTS which YOU, Minnesota_bound, have been shown numerous times before with links to the articles and proofs, yet you continue to post your LIES on these threads in attempts to spread your propaganda. CUT IT OUT. You have no evidence to back your lies except myth promulgated by Apple’s competitors such as Google, maker of Android. QUIT LYING.
All those Uighurs in prison camps are a myth too.
All the photos of the working and living arrangements are not to be believed either.
This is how the FUD experts are responding to Apple’s M1 chip introduction. They got nothing else to compare with it so just dirty up Apple anyway they can. Usually works for Samsung.
Thanks, Sword!
I’ll never understand people irrational hatred of Apple and Macintosh!
Interesting - the same Apple that has long had a reputation both in and out of China as having the higest labor standards (pay, conditions, hours, etc.) of any in the country.
The same Apple lines that Chinese workers desperately tried to make it TO?
And at the same time that Apple had this reputation - those other companies using FoxConn and other Chinese plants did NOT maintain any sort of labor standards. Yet it’s Apple that is the bad guy?
This article (and the Freeper who posted it) sound like Kamala Harris Fangirls...
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